Download or read book Gavel to Gavel Information Guide written by South East Regional Resource Center (Alaska) and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gavel to Gavel written by C-SPAN and published by . This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty years ago, C-SPAN, the public affairs network created by the cable industry, began providing live, gavel-to-gavel coverage of the U.S. House of Representatives. For the first time in American history, people outside the nation's capital could watch their government in action -- without interruption and without editorial comment. Now C-SPAN has provided a concise, information-packed guidebook that takes readers behind the scenes to explain exactly how Congress works. Going far beyond daily news accounts or high school civics texts, this handbook offers detailed, insider information on topics ranging from the meaning of the bells and buzzers that inform Members of floor proceeding to an explanation of what each congressional position does -- not only such well-known posts as Majority and Minority Leaders but also Sergeant at Arms, Doorkeeper, Timekeeper, Parliamentarian, and Journal Clerk. The book includes seating diagrams, a schedule of a typical day's activities, and a clear, easy-to-understand overview of exactly how a bill becomes law.
Download or read book Cloak and Gavel written by Alexander Charns and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The separation of powers becomes a meaningless cliche as Alexander Charns - using the Federal Bureau of Investigation's own files - reveals how that agency undermined the independence of the U.S. Supreme Court for a half-century. FBI director J. Edgar Hoover's goal was simple: to push the Supreme Court to the right on issues of civil rights and criminal law. His techniques ranged from illegal wiretapping to spreading disinformation, from using Justice Abe Fortas as an informant to trying to hound liberal Justice William O. Douglas off the bench. Cloak and Gavel, the definitive work on the FBI-Supreme Court relationship, is based on thousands of pages of FBI documents that Charns fought for eight years to obtain. One 2,000-page file was released only after he filed hundreds of Freedom of Information requests and brought lawsuits against the FBI. It establishes Hoover's strategies to influence the Senate confirmation process, incite the public against the Warren court, lobby for legislation to counteract judicial rulings, and use numerous informants inside the Court to both monitor and influence it. Charns was given special permission to conduct research using Justice Abe Fortas's papers, which had been sealed until the year 2000. These papers proved Fortas had acted as an informer for the White House and for the FBI during his tenure on the bench. Fortas ultimately left the Court in disgrace after an ethics scandal unrelated to his informant role. Charns also suggests that Hoover's death did not end the FBI's attempts to influence Congress and the federal judiciary - as evidenced by the role of the FBI in the explosive Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill Senate hearings in 1991. Until now, no onehas examined the ultimate constitutional violation - the FBI's attempts to influence the Court by any means available.
Download or read book Gavel quill a guide to court records at National Archives written by NEW ZEALAND. NATIONAL ARCHIVES. and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gavel to Gavel written by Alan Green and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gavel to gavel Alaska Curriculum Guide for Teachers written by NEA/Alaska and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book God vs the Gavel written by Marci A. Hamilton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-05-30 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: God vs. the Gavel challenges the pervasive assumption that all religious conduct deserves constitutional protection. While religious conduct provides many benefits to society, it is not always benign. The thesis of the book is that anyone who harms another person should be governed by the laws that govern everyone else - and truth be told, religion is capable of great harm. This may not sound like a radical proposition, but it has been under assault since the 1960s. The majority of academics and many religious organizations would construct a fortress around religious conduct that would make it extremely difficult to prosecute child abuse by clergy, medical neglect of children by faith-healers, and other socially unacceptable behaviors. This book intends to change the course of the public debate over religion by bringing to the public's attention the tactics of religious entities to avoid the law and therefore harm others.
Download or read book Justice the Courthouse Dog and the Missing Gavel written by Isabella Cook and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-02 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Justice the Courthouse Dog and the Missing Gavel is a story of a therapy dog who is on a quest to find a judge's missing gavel. Throughout Justice's quest, she encounters many of the people in a courthouse, including a judge, a prosecutor, an interpreter, a guardian ad litem, and more. Through Justice's story, children are familiarized with the courthouse and learn that the courthouse is a safe place for children. Children will learn that the people in the courthouse are there to help them, which will reduce their anxiety before having to enter the courthouse.
Download or read book Avoiding the Gavel written by Craig Piper and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Federal Rules of Court written by and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Glass and Gavel written by Nancy Maveety and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-12-15 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Glass and Gavel, noted legal expert Nancy Maveety has written the first book devoted to alcohol in the nation’s highest court of law, the United States Supreme Court. Combining an examination of the justices’ participation in the social use of alcohol across the Court’s history with a survey of the Court’s decisions on alcohol regulation, Maveety illustrates the ways in which the Court has helped to construct the changing culture of alcohol. “Intoxicating liquor” is one of the few things so plainly material to explicitly merit mention, not once, but twice, in the amendments to the U.S. Constitution. Maveety shows how much of our constitutional law—Supreme Court rulings on the powers of government and the rights of individuals—has been shaped by our American love/hate relationship with the bottle and the barroom. From the tavern as a judicial meeting space, to the bootlegger as both pariah and patriot, to the individual freedom issue of the sobriety checkpoint—there is the Supreme Court, adjudicating but also partaking in the temper(ance) of the times. In an entertaining and accessible style, Maveety shows that what the justices say and do with respect to alcohol provides important lessons about their times, our times, and our “constitutional cocktail” of limited governmental power and individual rights.
Download or read book Marriage Equality written by William N. Eskridge, Jr. and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2020-08-18 with total page 1041 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive history of the marriage equality debate in the United States, praised by Library Journal as "beautifully and accessibly written. . . . An essential work.” As a legal scholar who first argued in the early 1990s for a right to gay marriage, William N. Eskridge Jr. has been on the front lines of the debate over same‑sex marriage for decades. In this book, Eskridge and his coauthor, Christopher R. Riano, offer a panoramic and definitive history of America’s marriage equality debate. The authors explore the deeply religious, rabidly political, frequently administrative, and pervasively constitutional features of the debate and consider all angles of its dramatic history. While giving a full account of the legal and political issues, the authors never lose sight of the personal stories of the people involved, or of the central place the right to marry holds in a person’s ability to enjoy the dignity of full citizenship. This is not a triumphalist or one‑sided book but a thoughtful history of how the nation wrestled with an important question of moral and legal equality.
Download or read book California Judicial Conduct Handbook written by David M. Rothman and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 971 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Modern Rules of Order written by Donald A. Tortorice and published by American Bar Association. This book was released on 2007 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition of an ABA best-seller will provide anyone who conducts meetings with an easy framework for efficiency and fairness. With a system that is easy to implement, this book is organized in an intuitive fashion to make it easy to refer to for guidance during a meeting. The framework is perfect for any organization looking to adapt them as a starting point for their own customized bylaws. The book is fully indexed, and contains charts helpful for handling tricky situations at a glance.
Download or read book Roberta s Rules of Order written by Alice Collier Cochran and published by Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 2004-02-03 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A consultant for nonprofit management support organizations challenges nonprofit leaders to retire "Robert's Rules of Order" and adopt a simpler, friendlier, and more effective method for conducting meetings.
Download or read book From Stethoscope to Gavel written by Harry Rein and published by . This book was released on 2015-10-20 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Harry Rein has lived an extraordinary life. He has been a refugee, soldier, husband, father, doctor, lawyer, and judge, and to the best of his knowledge, the only doctor-lawyer-judge in the United States. His path begins when he boards the last train out of Austria after Hitler's annexation, followed by remaining one step ahead of destruction for the next year. Then comes a denial of entry into the United States due to quotas and poverty, followed by eventual admission three years later. "Angels" then enter his life and those of his family, allowing them to become meaningful citizens in the United States. These episodes from his inspiring journey discuss the ambition, attitude, kindnesses, rewards, and punishment he experiences with the many people he encounters along the way who lift him to higher levels of practice within each of his three professions. From Stethoscope to Gavel is the true story of an ordinary man from a humble background whose optimism and generosity in the face of crushing hardships will challenge, encourage, and motivate generations to come.
Download or read book Allow Me to Retort written by Elie Mystal and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2023-05-09 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist, ABA Silver Gavel Award for Books The New York Times bestseller that has cemented Elie Mystal’s reputation as one of our sharpest and most acerbic legal minds “After reading Allow Me to Retort, I want Elie Mystal to explain everything I don’t understand—quantum astrophysics, the infield fly rule, why people think Bob Dylan is a good singer . . .” —Michael Harriot, The Root Allow Me to Retort is an easily digestible argument about what rights we have, what rights Republicans are trying to take away, and how to stop them. Mystal explains how to protect the rights of women and people of color instead of cowering to the absolutism of gun owners and bigots. He explains the legal way to stop everything from police brutality to political gerrymandering, just by changing a few judges and justices. He strips out all of the fancy jargon conservatives like to hide behind and lays bare the truth of their project to keep America forever tethered to its slaveholding past. Mystal brings his trademark humor, expertise, and rhetorical flair to explain concepts like substantive due process and the right for the LGBTQ community to buy a cake, and to arm readers with the knowledge to defend themselves against conservatives who want everybody to live under the yoke of eighteenth-century white men. The same tactics Mystal uses to defend the idea of a fair and equal society on MSNBC and CNN are in this book, for anybody who wants to deploy them on social media. You don’t need to be a legal scholar to understand your own rights. You don’t need to accept the “whites only” theory of equality pushed by conservative judges. You can read this book to understand that the Constitution is trash, but doesn’t have to be.
